couple walk over them' -- already a mixed metaphor), it could also be intended to suggest the literal image of the superior couple scattering their political and intellectual talents like precious stones while trampling over their opponents, who in their inferiority can only lie there and watch....
Egyptian priests of Horus used what is known as “The Wands of Horus” These were hollow cylinders filled with a variety of metaphysical stones used for healing. It is believed that higher priests used the wands to transverse the worlds of the living and the dead. In many Egyptian sculptures...